Reading the New Global Order

Textual Transformations of 1989

Kirrily Freeman, John Munro (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-26496-0 (ISBN)

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1989 bore witness to a number of seismic events; The fall of the Berlin Wall, protests at Tiananmen Square, the US invasion of Panama, and many more. These notable moments inspired an array of visual, sonic and literary texts that can tell us much about this watershed moment. This edited collection examines these products of 1989 to explore the sense of transformative immediacy, which defined this memorable year, and show how the events of 1989 set the path for the 21st century.

Gathering together scholars across a range of disciplines, Reading the New Global Order examines specific texts to reveal key transnational issues of that year, and to highlight fundamental questions about the nature and significance of 1989 as a global moment. From speeches, manifestos and novellas, to a pop album, this book raises questions about what constitutes a ‘text’ in the study of history and what they can reveal about their point in time. Taken together, these chapters highlight 1989 as a cultural, intellectual and political landmark of the 20th century through the global events it saw and the texts it produced.

Kirrily Freeman is Associate Professor of History at Saint Mary’s University, in Halifax, Canada. Her publications include Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1940-1944 (2009) and Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944 (Bloomsbury, 2019), co-edited with John Munro. John Munro is Lecturer in United States History at the University of Birmingham, UK. His publications include The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonization, 1945-1960 (2017) and Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944 (Bloomsbury, 2019), co-edited with Kirrily Freeman.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction, Kirrily Freeman

Part I: Intellectual Production
1. The End of History?, Molly Geidel
2. The Rushdie Affair, the Threat of a Globalized Islam, and the Retreat From Multiculturalism, Rita Chin
3. Total Critique: The Condition Of Postmodernity at the End of History,
Don Mitchell
4. Beyond Binaries: Stuart Hall and The History of Science, Michell Chresfield
5. Intersectionality as Heuristic: A Conversation, Phanuel Antwi and Amira Ismail

Part II: Culture and Politics
6. The New Concerned Intellectuals and Civil Society: Democracy Movements in Taiwan, Song-Chuan Chen
7. The Guildford Four and First Tuesday: Free to Speak, Frances Pheasant-Kelly
8. George H.W. Bush’s Panama War Speech: Realist Policy as “Just Cause”, Wassim Daghrir
9. Poptivism on the Cold War’s Edge: Breakthrough/Rainbow Warriors and the “1989” Sound, Roxanne Panchasi
10. A Tale of Two Periodicities: Indigenous and Settler Continuities Amid Neoliberal Transformation at the St. Alice Hotel, John Munro
11. Germany, the Environment, and the End of Communism: A Conversation, Julia Ault and Thomas Fleischman

Conclusion, Ned Richardson-Little
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-26496-2 / 1350264962
ISBN-13	978-1-350-26496-0 / 9781350264960
Zustand	Neuware